10 Reasons We Need Java 3.0 (O'Reilly) [LWN.net]

Elliotte Rusty Harold writes about the need for Java 3.0 on O'Reilly. "It's now a little more than 11 years after James Gosling began working on OAK, the language that would eventually become Java, and seven years since Sun posted the first public release of Java. The language, class library, and virtual machine collectively known as "Java" are all showing their age. There are many parts of Java that everyone agrees should be fixed but can't be, for reasons of backwards compatibility. Until now, revisions of Java have attempted to maintain "upwards compatibility;" that is, all earlier code should continue to run unchanged in later versions of Java. This has limited the changes that can be made to Java, and prevented Sun from fixing many obvious problems."

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